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Strange Music: engaging imaginatively with the family of Elizabeth Barrett Browning from a Creole and Black Woman's perspective.

From: Victorian Poetry  |  Date: 12/22/2006  |  Author: Fish, Laura

My novel in progress Strange Music (Jonathan Cape, forthcoming, 2008) offers a fictional exploration of the family of Elizabeth Barrett Browning from Elizabeth's own perspective and from that of a Creole and a black woman, and juxtaposes the three women's experiences at a moment of crisis within the Barrett family itself. Strange Music may be more accurately described as a work of bio-fiction, where the distinction between fact and fiction becomes clouded. It is set between 1837 and ...

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